Irish Film Awards 2008

2008 Irish Film Awards
2008 Irish Film & Television Academy Award nominations: February 1, 2008
2008 Irish Film Award winners: Gaiety Theatre in Dublin on February 17, 2008
(”*” denotes the winner in each category)
 

Garage was the big winner at the 2007 Irish Film Awards. Directed by Leonard Abrahamson and written by Mark O’Halloran, both of whom won Irish Film Awards in their respective categories, Garage is a dramatic comedy about a lonely and somewhat slow-thinking caretaker (best actor winner Pat Shortt) of a decrepit small-town gas station whose life is drastically changed after a teenager comes to work with him. Also in the cast, Anne-Marie Duff and Conor Ryan.
 

FILM CATEGORIES
Best Film
Becoming Jane – (Ecosse Films/Octagon)
Closing the Ring – (The Works UK Distribution)
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by Andre Soares | February 20, 2008   
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Irish Film Awards 2007 Winners

Even though it failed to get nominated in the best director (Ken Loach) and best screenplay (Paul Haverty) categories, 2006 Cannes winner The Wind That Shakes the Barley was chosen best Irish film at the 2007 Irish Film & Television Academy Awards ceremony held in Dublin.
Starring Cillian Murphy (above, left), The Wind That Shakes the Barley follows members of the Irish Republican Army as they fight the British in the early 20th century. Liam Cunningham, as a train driver who becomes an activist, was chosen best supporting actor.

Cillian Murphy, for his part, was the winner of the best actor award for his role as a transvestite cabaret singer in Neil Jordan’s sociopolitical comedy-drama Breakfast on Pluto (above). [...]

by Andre Soares | February 10, 2007   
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Irish Film Awards 2007

2007 Irish Film & Television Academy Awards
2007 Irish Film Award Nominations
2007 Irish Film Award Winners: Royal Dublin Society on February 9, 2007
("*" denotes the winner in each category)
 

Ken Loach’s The Wind That Shakes the Barley
 

AWARDS IN FILM

Best Film
Breakfast on Pluto (Parallel Film Productions Ltd.)
The Front Line (Wide Eye Films)
Middletown (Chapter Four)
Small Engine Repair (Subotica Entertainment)
* The Wind That Shakes the Barley (Sixteen Films & Element Films)
Best International Film
Babel (Paramount Pictures)
Casino Royale (Sony Pictures)
The Departed (Entertainment Films)
* Little Miss Sunshine (20th Century Fox)
United 93 (Universal Pictures)
Best Director
John Boorman – The Tiger’s Tail (Merlin Films)
David Gleeson – The Front Line (Wide Eye Films)
* Neil Jordan – Breakfast on Pluto (Parallel Film Productions Ltd.)
Brian Kirk – Middletown (Chapter Four)
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by Andre Soares | February 10, 2007   
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Irish Film Awards 2005

2005 Irish Film Awards
2005 Irish Film & Television Academy Awards winners: November 5, 2005
("*" denotes the winner in each category)
 

Perry Ogden’s Pavee Lackeen takes a look at poverty in modern Ireland as seen through the eyes of a young girl and her family
 

FILM AWARDS

Best Film
Mickybo & Me
The Mighty Celt
* Pavee Lackeen
Tara Road
Trouble with Sex
Best Director
Anthony Byrne — Short Order
Fintan Connolly — Trouble with Sex
* Terry George — Hotel Rwanda
Perry Ogden — Pavee Lackeen
Best Actor
Gabriel Byrne – Wah-Wah
Cillian Murphy – Red Eye
* Liam Neeson – Kinsey
Aidan Quinn – Convicted
Best Actress
Andrea Corr – The Boys & Girl from County Clare
Jillian Bradbury – Winter’s End
Winnie Maughan – Pavee Lackeen
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by Andre Soares | November 5, 2005   
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